Out of Time is book two in a series. It is not a standalone
novel. I highly recommend that you read my first novel, Nine Minutes, to
be able to understand the background stories of the main characters. There are
many twists and turns in both stories that can best be connected if read
consecutively.

Although I do answer all of the
outstanding questions from Nine Minutes, there is more to this story,
and some readers may consider it a cliffhanger. If you do not like
cliffhangers, you may want to wait until the third novel is released in 2016.

They thought with his execution it
would all be over.

They were wrong.

The leader of one of South Florida’s
most notorious and brutal motorcycle gangs has been put to death by lethal
injection. Days later, his family and friends should have been picking up the
pieces, moving on. Instead, they’ve been catapulted into a world so twisted and
dangerous even the most ruthless among them would be stunned to discover the
tangled web of deception, not only on the dangerous streets of South Florida
but all the way to the top.

In this gripping follow-up novel to Nine
Minutes, Out of Time takes readers from the sun-drenched flatlands of 1950s
Central Florida to the vivid tropical heat of Fort Lauderdale to the halls of
Florida’s Death Row as we finally learn the gritty backstory of Jason “Grizz”
Talbot and the secret he spent his life trying to conceal.

Not even Grizz’s inner circle knows his
full story—the tragedy that enveloped his early life, the surprise discovery
that made him the government’s most wanted and most feared, and the depths of
his love for Ginny, the tenderhearted innocent he’d once abducted and later
made his wife.

Once Grizz’s obsession and now the
mother of his child, Ginny has spent years grieving the man she’d first
resisted and then came to love. Now remarried to Tommy, a former member of the
gang, the pair have spent more than a decade trying desperately to live a
normal existence far from the violent, crime-ridden world they’d once carved
out on the edge of the Florida Everglades. For Tommy, especially, the stakes
are high. Desperately in love with Ginny for years, he’s finally living his
dream: married to the woman he never thought he could have. But even with the
façade of normalcy—thriving careers, two beautiful children, and a genuinely
happy and loving marriage—they can’t seem to put the past behind them. Every
time they turn around, another secret is revealed, unraveling the very bonds
that hold them together.

And with Grizz finally put to death,
now Ginny has learned secrets so dark, so evil she’s not even sure she can go
on.

Will these secrets tear their love to pieces? And
how far will Grizz go to protect what he still considers his, even from beyond
the grave?

EXCERPT

1979

“Yes! There is something I want for my
birthday. Something I really want! I’ve been thinking about our prom date last
year.”

“You want another romantic night at
Martin’s beach house?” He grinned, relieved. A night making love with Kit at
the beach house. Ohhhhh yeahhhh.

“No. Not the beach house.” She was
bouncing in her seat now. “I want you to take me out! Dancing. I want to go to
a club and go dancing.”

His smile faded and he looked a little
deflated. He wasn’t going to tell her his name. He wasn’t going to go to church
with her. How could he tell her no to the third thing she’d asked for?

“Shit, baby. You have to know I’m not a
dancer. I barely got by with the slow dancing in Martin’s gazebo.”

“I want to go dancing, Grizz. Please!
The only time I ever get to dance is when I convince Axel to dance with me in
number four. And you know that’s barely ever. He won’t do it if there are a lot
of people at the motel. He doesn’t want to risk being seen.”

Grizz had to smile at this. He’d walked
in more than once on Axel and Kit dancing to one of those groups that Kit
loved. If you asked him, those guys’ voices sounded like someone had their
balls in a vice. A high-pitched squeal is all he ever heard and he never stayed
around long enough to listen to an entire song.

“Why do you dance to a song about a
bald-headed woman?” He’d asked her once.

Axel and Kit had stopped and peered at
him strangely. “What do you mean by bald headed woman?” Kit had asked as Grizz
turned the stereo down.

“These guys, who sound like women, are
singing about a bald-headed woman,” Grizz replied.

She’d started laughing. “The Bee Gees
are saying ‘more than a woman,’ Grizz. Not bald-headed woman! The song is
called More Than a Woman and I happen to love it.”

“Whatever it’s called, it still sucks.
I’m outta here.”

Grizz appreciated that Axel danced with
his wife. And yes, he knew Axel’s other secret, too. He honestly didn’t care.
He didn’t care what any guy decided to do with his dick as long as it was never
near his wife. But he also knew he had to keep Axel’s secret. As leader, he had
final say as to who could be in the gang. Still, he knew not everyone would be
tolerant of Axel’s lifestyle. It was just easier to let it stay a secret. And
besides, he was certain nobody suspected a thing.

“I don’t dance, Kit.” Grizz said now,
shaking his head.

“But I want to go dancing for my
birthday.” She folded her arms and gave him an accusing look. “You asked!”

He shook his head slightly and looked
at her. “Can’t I just buy you another car?”

FGBB Review

“He’d won. That bastard
was dead and he’d still won.”

5 BRILLIANTLY COMPOSED AND INTRICATELY WOVEN STARS...

This review is going to be different from the ones
that I usually write, and it’s for a very good reason. This review needs to be
totally and completely spoiler free! No clues, hints, or even basic plot
references will be included. This book needs to experienced the way it was
meant to be, without bias and with a totally open mind. Out of Time is the
sequel to Nine Minutes by the uber talented Beth Flynn. She’s promised us
readers answers to many of the burning questions we were all left with after
finishing book 1, and HOLY HANNAH does she deliver…

“The world was rotten
and so was everybody in it.”

Nine Minutes was a total roller coaster for me when I
read it, and Out of Time is no less shocking, thought provoking, and powerful.
Beth Flynn has once again crafted a meticulous story that not only engages the reader,
but she’s also created characters that you love and love to hate at the same
time. I mean HELLO, Grizz, Tommy, Moe, Jan, Blue, these characters are so
incredibly flawed and damaged that it’s almost painful to spend any amount of
time in their heads, hearing their thoughts and memories are, at times, cringe
worthy. That being said, these characters have had the most inconceivably
horrendous things happen to them both in the past and even in the present. It
becomes crystal clear over the course of this boo, why they are the way they
are. We get insights into the past, we spend time in the present, all while
trying to unravel this unique and gripping story. Out of Time is incredibly
complicated and complex, it may be the most intricate story I have ever read,
and I’ve read some total mind f***s in the past. Flynn proves with Out of Time
that she is here to stay; she has a gift for not only drawing a reader, but
holding them captive, until they’ve devoured and agonized over every last word.
Her writing is flawless and this story is so incredibly well-crafted it’s
impossible not to become totally mesmerized by it.

Beth Flynn is a fiction writer who
lives and works in Sapphire, North Carolina, deep within the southern Blue
Ridge Mountains. Raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Beth and her husband, Jim,
have spent the last 17 years in Sapphire, where they own a construction
company. They have been married 31 years and have two daughters and two dogs.
In her spare time, Beth enjoys writing, reading, gardening, church and
motorcycles, especially taking rides on the back of her husband’s Harley. She
is a five-year breast cancer survivor.

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